Halloween

Happy Halloween.  We had a really nice holiday this year.  Lots of candy, family and fun costumes. 

Cowgirl Ashby

London Mae, sweet Indian girl

Ezra the little Froggy

Halloween this year was beautiful!  Not only was there no rain, but it was almost hot.  In the mid 60's.  We had a Cowgirl, an Indian or Unicorn and a little Froggy boy.  It sure was great to have Nana and Papa here.

 

Christmas 2010 Part 1

Here is a kind of recap of our December (month of Christmas activities)

Selecting a splendid smelling Fur Tree.

Playing with Daddy by the tree.

Eating some Grandpa Ken's traditional Christmas Chex Mix. Yummy!

Breakfast with Santa

 Grandpa took the girls to the fun and yummy Breakfast with Santa

Some of the staff from the North Pole was there to make the morning awesome.  Including Santa Claus, Mrs Claus, Buddy the Elf, Polar Bear and the Gingerbread Man! 

In addition to a yummy breakfast enjoyed by all, there were lots of activities like Face painting and Santa Letter writing,

Lots of Games, Goodies and Crafts.

 There was even fun photo opts.

The line for Santa was long, but we all had a fun start to the Christmas season.

Stay tuned for Part 2.  Christmas Day.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

It has been a very fun day and both of the girls got to wear their cute green clothes.  Yippee!  I never had cute green things to wear growing up (which really does matter in public school K-12).  So I guess (even though they aren't in any school) I want to give them that.  Silly huh.  I know.
Anyway, I still don't have anything green so I wore a green flower in my hair and a green ribbon as a braclet.  Maybe next year. haha.
So I fell through on my clothing, but came through on the food with a little help from everyone.

Breakfast of Kix, Oatmeal, baby Rice Cereal

and dinner of Green Chicken pea and rice casserole, green jello, and kiwi salad

with "blueberry" muffins as dessert

I got the idea from our cousins.  Thanks Em. 

 

Merry Christmas

Merry, Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.Both of our girls are asleep in their new pjs.
Hope all of you enjoy your Christmas weekend.
We're hoping for snow. :)

Easter Weekend at Grandparents Loveless Part 3

April 11th

My brother Jared and his fun wife Stacy also decided to spend Easter weekend at Mom and Dad's and they brought the fun. Meaning the brought a Wii and a WiiFit! Everyone took turns including Ashby.

Her favorite seems to be the free run. You run following your "trainer" and part way through have the option to chase a puppy. She really like trying to catch the cute puppies!

Also on Saturday Grandma, Ashby and I did some fun crafts.

Bunny CupCakes

My Great-Grandma's recipe. She made them every Easter. At least until she was like 90 years old. She was a very talented woman and made everything beautiful including these sweet little Easter treats.

I'd never made them before. Thanks Mom for doing them with us! Let's do it agin next year! Ashby and I really had fun. Ashby's bunny faces can only improve from here right? ( you use food coloring and a toothpick on the marshmellows to make the face and Ashby's looked more like the bunnies had been shot....ewww. Don't worry, she ate all of the evidence). I guess we'll work on our smiley faces.

The grass is coconut dyed green! And my Great-Grandma came up with this cute idea without the websites I would have needed today.

Kites

Mom helped Ashby to creat a "swirl" or "no wind" kite. It was just out of paper, stick and string with color love by Ashby. It didn't take long and provided lots of smiley fun!

Thanks Great Grandparents Mahrle

Last week we received a package for Ashby from Colorado. It had to be from my brother Adam or our fun Great Grandparents Mahrle. It was the latter and inside was a sweet a fun set of things for our little family. Thanks! Ashby's favorite was the cute bunny. It had a Dress!!

She had to get all of her bunny family together for the pictures!

Our Family Valentines

Because my Missionary Sister, Amy was leaving the MTC on Monday the 16th and she gets to call home from the Airport, we decided to try to be at my parents house when she called.

We decided to just go up to Ogden for the entire weekend including Valentines Day. As a result our Valentines Day was much less romantic and definitely more of just a nice family day! In addition to Grandma and Grandpa Mike we played with Michelle, Jared and Stacy and it still was really fun!

Here is Ashby opening her special gift from Mommy and Daddy.
"This is what I got!"

For Christmas, I had receive slippers that Ashby constantly was trying to steal, so we decided to share the love by finding her own pair to go with her bedtime gift.

The day was a beautiful winter day filled with a little shopping, home browsing, and movie watching.

Later Grandma made a delicous meal for us all. Ashby really loves helping in the kitchen. Here she is pealing the onion! Great job sweetie.

We ended the night after Ashby was asleep with a little alone time by going to get dessert for two!

Valentines Prep Day!

The day before Valentines Ashby and I made WAY TOO Many heart shaped cupcakes, yummy choclate coated popcorn and adorable homemade Valentines Cards.

After we got back from taking our Valentine Goodies around the neighborhood, some of our friends returned the thought with yummy heart shaped cookies! One even had Ashby's name hand written! So cute.

Ashby loved the cookies and the sweet cards from 3 of her favorite girls in the Ward! Thanks.

We had a lot of fun getting ready for Valentines!

Hope You all had fun too!

Martin Luther King Day

As both of my parents and Michelle (the only sibling under 18) had no work and school they took leave of North Ogden for the day to come to Orem to play with us!

Aunt Michelle is a favorite and here she is doing one of Ashby's favorite things: Reading to her

We had yummy sandwiches and homemade Oreo Cookies (thanks Mom!) Then we piled into my parents car and drove over to the indoor play area at the University mall. It is a BIG prehistoric tree-house with a slide. (I really think it is fun but also a bit of a waste...they could/should have added a couple more slides to the thing!) It has the skeleton of a T-Rex lying down that kids can run through and climb on and a spine to try to balance on.

Overall not nearly as fun as a real play ground...but given the time of year and the temperature outside...it was great!

Then my mom ran over to Deseret book to buy a "Future Missionary" tag for Ashby as our Amy had asked! Ashby was so excited to be like Aunty Amy the Missionary. Thanks Mom.

Afterward we all went out to eat before and watched Mansfield Park.

Michelle, Mom, Ashby and Me

Thanks Mom and Dad for driving down!

Snow fun

Ryan's youngest brother,

Jordan, came into town from Santa Barbara for the 2 weeks of his Christmas Holiday. He is a really fun and cool and super sweet with Ashby so we love having him with us. He knew that he was getting a snow board for Christmas but it wouldn't be available until post Christmas(when Nana Haskins came to town) so we had to creative in finding things to entertain him with before he could hit the slopes.

We got to go sleding which was lots of fun, we even ran into an old companion from Ryan's mission. It was good to meet you Jason Gough and fam. :) We made a small sleding hill (for the neighbor kids) turned snow house/igloo. Thanks Ryan, Preston and Ryan for all your hard work in making the igloo! It has shrunk and grown some with the warm and snowy weather, but it has been fun. We also made one up at my parents house in North Ogden, Thanks Adam for the help! There has been general snow fun, Ashby has become quite efficient at pulling her snow clothes (jump suit, jacket, gloves, boots and beanie) because she really is a little snow bunny! We went ice skating (once with Jordan, once without). And of course the always enticing fun of shoveling the snow off the drive. Ashby got to enjoy all of these.







Oh, I almost forgot and Ashby even got to meet Santa Claus and Prancer our in the snow!

Merry Christmas!!!
Hope you all were good boys and girls. I think I was.

Ashby's Visit with Santa

Santa came to our ward Christmas party. All the kids had fun talking to him. This particular "Helper of Santa" looks a little familiar. Any guesses?

Loveless Family Pictures

Adam came out for three things:

1. Mom's 52nd birthday CHECK

2. Michelle's Play (Peter Pan) CHECK

3. Early Thanksgiving CHECK

Now, my parents used to take all us kids dressed up and "happy" to Olen Mills picture studios for family photos. That ended after too many of us were teenagers. So up until a couple of years ago we didn't have any recent (like in the past 5 years) family pictures.

Anyway, now we try and do it at least once every year when we all together.

Halloweens Past

2006

4 month old Ashby the cloud? marshmellow? giant cottonball?

2007
16 month old Ashby the duck (made by Grandma Loveless!)